In the Karaganda region on December 11, a strike of four coal mines began, yesterday 4 more mines joined the strike, in general, at the moment, there are 8 mines on strike! About 200-300 miners are underground.
The dismissal of a union leader of the militant trade union AMCU, as well as the attempt to declare your strike illegal, shows very clearly how the international mining companies want to assert their interests against the miners. He has my full support and solidarity and I will do everything in my power to make your struggle known worldwide. Your struggle shows that the miners of the world must fight for a universal right to strike in every country!
To the striking miners of the Kusasalethu gold mine
the dismissal of a union leader of the militant trade union AMCU, as well as the attempt to declare your strike illegal, shows very clearly how the international mining companies want to assert their interests against the miners. He has my full support and solidarity and I will do everything in my power to make your struggle known worldwide.
Preamble
The 1st International Miners' Conference 2013 in Arequipa, Peru with representatives from 25 countries of four continents was a very significant step towards the unification of miners in the whole world. We were guided by the principle that we miners, together with our families, must cooperate and coordinate our struggles on an international level if we want to become a superior force against the international mining monopolies and their governments. In our founding conference we resolved that: “It is less and less possible today, isolated from each other and locally restricted, to assert ourselves against the international mining monopolies. What we need is the unity of workers worldwide!”²
In the last year the BJP government has come out in the open to attack the working class. Its policies have destroyed jobs, livelihoods and lives. Government data confirms that lakhs of workers lost their jobs because of the government’s ill motivated note ban. Even more are losing their jobs because of the hurried and poorly planned introduction of the Goods and Services Tax.
Following the Strike Notice served to the Coal India 's Management by the all the five Unions
- AITUC, BMS, CITU, HMS and INTUC operating in the Coal Industry, the matter was seized by the Deputy CLC (C) - Kolkata.
In both the Conciliation Meetings held on 18/06/17 and on 07/09/17, the Deputy CLC (C) has ordered some directives on the issue of Closures of Mines to be observed by all
Dear Colleagues,
We heard about the courageous strike of the 70 miners of the Griffin coal mine in southwestern Australia. For 7 weeks you have been in a tough fight against the announcement of a 26% pay cut by the mine management, against cuts in premiums and sick pay, as well as against the extension of weekly working hours.
Dear Colleagues,
we have heard that the miners and workers in India are going to do a sit in. We support your struggle for the important demands of the workers.
We commit ourselves to make known your demonstration in the continents and spread worldwide through our homepage, as well as to organize the solidarity. You can be sure of the support and solidarity of miners and people in the mining regions around the world. Today, international mining corporations are operating worldwide and, together with them, are exacerbating exploitation and oppression.
Coal Miners from Bhawani Mine have agitated for 43 days by way of Hunger Strike, demonstration etc
Following the Strike Notice served to the Coal India 's Management by the all the five Unions
- AITUC, BMS, CITU, HMS and INTUC operating in the Coal Industry, the matter was seized by the Deputy CLC (C) - Kolkata.
In both the Conciliation Meetings held on 18/06/17 and on 07/09/17, the Deputy CLC (C) has ordered some directives on the issue of Closures of Mines to be observed by all
- That, they will maintain the Statuquo that is the Management will not undertake any action amounting to closure and the Unions will defer their Strike till final decision on the Strike Notice.
- But the Management - WCL of Coal India closed the Ganapati Mine in Pench Area on 03/08/17 without any Written Notice but only with a Verbal Announcement by the Safety Officer that the Mine is closed from the day.
- Similarly, the Bhawani Mine from Ambadha Colliery in Kanhan Area was closed from the 01/09/17 only with
a Notice stating that the Mine shall be closed from today due to an Order from Above.
Our environment and thus the lifeblood of humans are in danger!
At the 2nd International Conference on Mining in India in 2017 it became clear again that the accelerated global warming, the deforestation of the forests, the poisoning of the sea and the earth by garbage and poisons. Pesticides or pollution from fossil fuels and uranium threatens a global environmental disaster that threatens the existence of all humanity!
Radical emergency measures are necessary!